NYC Anarchist Book Fair 2010
The Politics of Disaster: The Earthquakes of Haiti and Chile in Context
18 April 2010
Judson Memorial Church

This workshop will explore how disasters are made, dealt with, and exploited. In their wakes we have seen the opening up of devastated communities to predatory development, and only rarely an opening for a community to rebuild itself on its own terms. We will present an anarchist framework to examine how disasters can be created and manipulated to facilitate the spread of capitalism through historical and contemporary examples. We will place a particular emphasis on the aftermath of the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. We will engage participants in a discussion on radical disaster preparedness in our own communities and how to act in solidarity with disaster relief in a global context that doesn't replicate the same authoritarian and colonial structures already in place.

Aftershock Action Alliance is an anarchist emergency preparedness collective in New York City.



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